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MP3 Eric Street Band - The Journey

The album has an authentic Blues theme, based on life experiences gained through growing up and living in the UK. Each song is based on the issues/experiences that really affect us all. The guys feel that this more of a roots album than a main stream one.

11 MP3 Songs in this album (48:51) !
Related styles: Blues: Blues-Rock, Blues: Urban Blues, Type: Lyrical

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Review: Blues in Britain – January 2010
“The Journey is the Eric Street Band’s third album. It sees a return to the studio album, Eric Street Live.

Breaking from the formula of previous albums, Eric Street Band have peppered this one with a few surprises, most notably a ukulele. Not even this can scuff the surface of filthy, nightclub blues that covers The Journey.

On “Mr Blues”, the wah-wah pedal is put to good use. Neil Sadler pours dirty jazz sounding blues out of his guitar like whiskey from a bottle. The rest of the band expertly contributes to the archetypal blues man.

The title track tells the story of the blues entry into the mainstream, through bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin and the Animals. In doing so it also name checks a number of blues influences.

Softer tracks like “Cardboard City” and “Hey Suzie” show the band’s social conscience, Sadler effortlessly finger-picking heart strings and classical guitar alike. But it’s on stories of penniless, womanless tax-dodging like “The Tallyman” that the band are in their element, melding harsh bottleneck slide with fuzz-box distorted harmonica.

Not for the faint of heart or clear of head, The Journey is a masterpiece of punchy, tobacco-stained blues rock.

Rating: 8 – Jonathan Madge

Sleeve Notes:

The album songs are all self penned, written about life experiences. The instruments used are resonator, acoustic and classical guitars and a ukulele. The drums were played using mainly brushes and the bass was electric with one track fretless.

We wanted this to sound like an authentic blues album but we also tried some experiments. It paid off and we are really pleased with the results.

The title track the Journey was written about the way bands from the UK such as Cream, Led Zeppelin and the Animals took the blues back across the pond, playing to white Americans.

The Politicians Lament is about the way our politicians have been on the take for many years and just got found https://www.tradebit.com track, Cardboard City is about people sleeping rough on the streets in London and all of our major cities.


We hope that you get as much enjoyment out of listening to this album as we did making it.

Eric Street Band

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